My Tien Communal House

My Tien Communal House is located in My Tien Village, Bot Xuyen Commune, former My Duc District, now Bot Xuyen Village, Phuc Son Commune, Hanoi City. The village tutelary deity of the communal house is Duc Thanh Ca, a supreme deity (the god of thunder), who is responsible for rain and sunshine, thunder and lightning, and Duc Thanh Hai, General Lai Dai Si, a man accomplished in both letters and martial arts.

My Tien Communal House, Bot Xuyen Commune, My Duc District, Ha Tay Province (now part of Hanoi City), is a traditional religious architectural work associated with the worship of the village tutelary deity and meeting the religious and spiritual needs of the local community. Over its existence, My Tien Communal House has become the cultural and spiritual center of the My Tien village community, while preserving typical values of architectural art. Although the work no longer retains the entire architecture intact from its founding period, the communal house still preserves many valuable elements and a number of typical artifacts of art from the 17th century to the early 19th century. In particular, the rich system of artifacts such as dragon thrones, ancestral tablets, steles, and inscriptions are valuable materials contributing to research on the history of the formation and development of traditional villages as well as the development of Vietnamese sculpture art. With its historical, cultural, and architectural-artistic values, My Tien Communal House is a religious work of important significance for the community's cultural life and for the preservation and promotion of the locality's traditional cultural heritage values.